Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT industry. Several IT vendors are promising to offer storage, application and computation hosting services, and provide coverage in several continents, offering Service-Level Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their services. While these ‘clouds’ are the natural evolution of traditional clusters and data centers, they are distinguished by following a ‘utility’ pricing model where customers are charged based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage and transfer of data. These emerging services have reduced the cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude, however there is significant complexity involved in ensuring applications, services and data can scale when needed to ensure consistent and reliable operation under peak loads.

The Cloud 2010 symposium is to be held in Melbourne, Australia--building on the Cloud 2009 event held in Shanghai, China-- and aims at attracting researchers and practitioners involved in cloud computing technologies in addition to those harnessing clouds for their applications in various fields to maximise performance, minimise cost and improve the scale of their endeavours.

The theme of Cloud 2010 is: "Applied Cloud Technologies for Business and Consumer Applications"

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

1. • Novel architectural models for cloud computing
   

2. • Novel applications of cloud computing
   

3. • Cloud resource management
   

4. • Innovative Cloud Pricing Models
   

5. • Innovative Cloud Service Models
   

6. • Cloud Brokers
   

7. • Data Security and Jurisdiction in the Cloud
   

8. • New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing
   

9. • Scientific computing in the cloud
   

10. • Workflows for cloud computing
    

11. • Storage as a Service
    

12. • Platform as a Service
    

13. • Infrastructure as a Service
    

14. • Content Delivery Networks using Storage Clouds
    

15. • Interoperability / portability of applications and data between different cloud providers
    

16. • Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud
    

17. • Performance monitoring for cloud applications
    

Cloud 2010 will be held in conjunction with the The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing during May 17-20, 2010, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Organizing Committee:

Dr. James Broberg (brobergj AT csse.unimelb.edu.au)

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

The University of Melbourne, Australia

http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~brobergj

Prof. Bruno Schulze (bruno.schulze AT gmail.com)

National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brasil

http://virtual.lncc.br/~schulze/

Prof. Rajkumar Buyya (raj AT csse.unimelb.edu.au)

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

The University of Melbourne, Australia

http://www.buyya.com